Exodus 14:3

WEB

³Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

KJV

³For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

BSB

³For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’

FBV

³Pharaoh will conclude about the Israelites: ‘They're wandering about the country in confusion—the desert has blocked them from leaving.’

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Extra References

Acts 4:28

²⁸to do whatever your hand and your counsel foreordained to happen.

³I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

1 Samuel 23:7

⁷Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”

Jeremiah 20:10-11

¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.” ¹¹But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Psalms 139:2

²You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Psalms 71:11

¹¹saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

Ezekiel 38:17

¹⁷“‘The Lord GOD says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?

Ezekiel 38:10-11

¹⁰“‘The Lord GOD says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. ¹¹You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Deuteronomy 31:21

²¹It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

Psalms 139:4

⁴For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.